Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Links for 07/11/17

Links for 07/11/17: At Commonweal, John Gehring has an article that is thought-provoking but ultimately unsatisfying: If we see Neil Postman as prophetic, I worry that somehow Charles Chaput will seem more persuasive. Th...

MGB:_John is right about the analogy between Huxley and Orwell, although some of Trump and FoxNews fascism is quite Orwellian. Fox and Trump have coarsened society and have been helped in no small part from the tribalism of Chaput and the pro-life movement. Clinton should have focused there rather than on speaking directly in support of the pro-life cause. They voted for her anyway. Winning county by county won’t do much because most counties are not in play. Speaking the truth when others lie is where to begin. We can also Occupy Capitalism by bringing more democracy to the workplace, starting with employee-owned firms and moving outward from there.

As weasel worded as it is, the case will still support future cases overturning the Blaine rule, which keeps Catholic schools from being publicly funded. Education is a secular purpose. Anti-Catholic discrimination in delivering it cannot be justified.

We and the world surived Bush and we will survive Trump. Get ready for Apology Tour 2021.


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